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By Nicole Asbury. Washington Post Jan 22 2023 Officials are warning of the dangers of opioids — specifically fentanyl — after a 15-year-old student recently died of a suspected overdose A 15-year-old Montgomery County Public Schools student is the latest young person to die of…..
FREDERICK, Md. (DC NEWS NOW) — On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Maryland’s governor-elect Wes Moore proposed graduating high school seniors take a so-called “gap year” to work in their communities on a broad range of projects. They would be…..
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. remains a towering figure, known around the country and the world for his civil rights activism and moving speeches. But his story is not completely written, and we still have much to learn about the man and…..
” The political spectrum is not a straight line. It is more like the Greek letter omega, with the left and right extremes bending toward each other. The common denominators of the hippies and the MAGA militias are a delusional…..
WASHINGTON, DC – To commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service, AmeriCorps CEO Michael D. Smith released the following statement: “Martin Luther King, Jr., Day is the only federal holiday designated as a National Day of Service to encourage all…..
Perspective by Robin Givhan. Washington Post January 11 2023 Who will be left to educate this country’s children when all the teachers have had enough? Who will remain when educators tire of picking their way through a political obstacles course of ginned-up outrage over bathrooms…..
Advice by Elizabeth Chang Washington Post Jan 5th 2023 Politicians making fun of an 82-year-old man who was attacked with a hammer. Online commenters calling anti-vaxxers who died of covid-19 “stupid.” Teachers refusing to address transgender students by their chosen names. At a time like this, it can seem to…..
While other grades recover, middle schoolers are still in freefall. Two Virginia schools are bucking the trend. By Steven Yoder December 30, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EST Washington Post ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. — It was a Thursday morning in November, a few…..
Perspective by Jay Mathews Washington Post January 1, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST Many teachers complain that inflated grades, reduced homework and quick-and-easy credit recovery courses are leaving holes in students’ educations. I was convinced that the only reason superintendents and school boards…..
By Katherine Shaver Washington Post Dec 19th A new map of one of the Washington region’s most affluent and liberal suburbs reveals an ugly past: scores of neighborhoods deemed Whites-only for decades, helping to set the stage for persistent racial inequities. The interactive map devised by…..